The Decameron Of Giovanni Boccaccio by Richard Aldington - 1969

Garden City,New York: Garden City Books, 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Type: Book The last owner's name is written on the first inside page. Beautiful painting illustrations. Cover has gold gilt decorations on spine. The pages are clean and tight with no markings in the book.

New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1930. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Jean De Bosschere. Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1930. Hard Cover. Dust jacket has considerable shelfwear, chipped edges/corners/spine ends.Cover has very slight shelfwear, faded spine. Endpapers are foxed and slightly toned. Front flyleaf has ink stain. Pages are clean and unmarked, slightly toned. Beautiful b/w and color illustrations. 100 novellas told by 10 refugees from the 1348 bubonic plague in Florence, Italy. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Very nice copy.

Garden City, New York: International Collectors Library, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Teal cloth stamped in gilt, topedge gilt. Front joint neatly repaired, very good. A collection of 100 tales told over seven days by the fictional characters of seven ladies and three young men.

Westminster: The Folio Society, 1955. Some very slight wear cover edges, otherwise book clean and mostly tight. DJ: Some wear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City. Very Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1949. Hard Cover. (M204) .

1960 THE FOLIO SOCIETY, LONDON. VERY GOOD COPY WITHOUT A SLIPCASE: VOLUME 1. WITH AQUATINTS BY BUCKLAND-WRIGHT. THE FIRST FIVE DAYS. FITH IMPRESSION

Folio Society, 1998T. hardcover. Like New. in x in x in.

New York: Garden City. Very Good with no dust jacket. N.D.. Later Printing. Hardcover. Boxed two volume set, signed by Rockwell Kent, limited to 1,500 copies. This is copy 973. Box is worn, but still presentable. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 562 pages; Signed by Illustrator .

London: The Folio Society, 2007. Limited Edition . Leather. As New/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Buckland-Wright. In mint condition. Limited edition of 1760, this hand numbered 1394. Dark green clam style box, gilt title down the spine. Bound in rich red leather with gilt pattern/decoration, and titles in gilt on the spine. Gilt page tops, silk ribbon attached. Card-covered booklet enclosed entitled "The Happy Art of Narration : Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron". May incur additional postage charges outside Europe.

E-371: The Folio Society. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 2007. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Folio Society Ltd at the St Edmundsbury Press, London, UK. 2007. 710 pgs. Illustrated in black and white. Limited to 1750 copies of which this is copy 498. Housed in a green clamshell box..bound by Real Lachenmaier, Germany, in Jeff Clements designed decorated Wassa Goatskin leather boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Folio Society is a privately owned London-based publisher, founded by Charles Ede in 1947 and incorporated in 1971. It produces illustrated hardback editions of classic fiction and non-fiction books, poetry and children's titles. Folio editions feature specially designed bindings and include artist-commissioned illustrations (most often in fiction titles) or researched artworks and photographs (in non-fiction… Read More